"This fascinating book makes a crucial intervention into debates over neoliberalism, biopolitics, and the transition away from socialism. I have no doubt that it will become a central text for understanding post-Soviet social dynamics."--Martha Lampland, University of California, San Diego

"This is an important and timely book. Unlike previous scholars who have attempted a Foucaultian analysis of Soviet governmentality, Stephen Collier situates his study in relation to both Tsarist disciplinary forms and post-Soviet neoliberalism. This is therefore a highly ambitious book, whose aim is to examine a historical series that has always been in contrast with more intensively analyzed Euro-American social forms."--Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge